PRACTICAL ARBORICULTURE 



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INFLUENCE OF FORESTS UPON A PEOPLE. 



With Illustrations from Korean Scenery. 



There are influences, which, to a greater or less degree, control the 

 destinies of nations, but which, from their silent actions, are unrecognized 

 as the cause of national decadence, or of national supremacy. The presence 

 of a fair proportion of forests, or their entire absence, has often been the 

 means of uplifting a national life, or, on the contrary, its degradation. 



A KOREAN INN, THE STAliLES 



China is an illustration of a people, older than any other nation of the 

 earth, more densely populated, ranking high in education, but of a character 

 peculiar to herself, boasting of a civilization which antedates all other history; 

 yet China is a country without forests, and her millions of people are unable 



